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Andrea Walker

To Get the Most Out of Tablets, Use Smart Curation | MindShift - 0 views

  • The critical task is not finding information or stimuli, but organizing, cataloging, archiving, and developing habits and practices to exercise control over our surfeit of opportunity.
  • How might efforts to curate benefit from the portability and ubiquity of mobile devices? What would a “relevance portfolio” look like, where students catalog their daily encounters with ideas or experiences?
  • the task of the teacher is no longer to collect and distribute, but to empower students to curate their own collections of intellectual resources.
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  • Students can collect, organize and annotate web sites on Diigo, books on GoodReads, photos of Flickr, scholarly references on Zotero, music on SoundCloud, and anything and everything on a Tumblr or WordPress blog.
  • Evernote is one of the best apps to start to bridge this gap between the digital and physical.
  • Touch App Creator allows users to organize eBooks, text, images, and web-based content together into web apps hosted on Google Drive.
  • In the spirit of Gardner’s beauty journals, we should aim not just to help students get organized, but to closely and intentionally examine what they read, watch, see, hear, and collect.
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    Excellent article- "The critical task is not finding information or stimuli, but organizing, cataloging, archiving, and developing habits and practices to exercise control over our surfeit of opportunity." So we need to help students get organized (a few key tools highlighted here for this) and "closely and intentionally examine what they read, watch, see, hear, and collect."
Andrea Walker

10 Great Tools for Academic Research You Should Know about ~ Educational Technology and... - 0 views

    • Andrea Walker
       
      Some useful tools here to support research, notable - Evernote, Dropbox, google drive, EasyBib. The rest I need to investigate further. Anyone used these tools?
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    Some you may have heard of and use and some may be new? Are there any you would like to explore more for our Sep CPD?
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